Tag: XenApp

Even if the VDA registration with the Delivery Controller is already secured, in an environment where security is not an option, there are some configuration steps you can put in place in order to enhance the VDA registration process security. Why should you care about VDA registration? VDA registration is the link between the Delivery Controller (or Cloud Connector the Citrix Cloud customers) and the VDA. There is two communication channel established: VDA to Delivery Controller Delivery Controller to VDA […]

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Announced a few days ago, the 7.14 version includes a new cool feature : Now, you can really manage the disaster recovery of a XenApp environment! Before 7.14, the only setting available to manage the load throttling was this one: Concurrent Logon Tolerance setting You can control the number of pending logons a server delivering Server OS machines can concurrently accept by setting the Concurrent Logon tolerance. This helps avoid server performance problems. The Concurrent Logon Tolerance setting is equivalent […]

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Announced a few hours age, the 7.14 version is now available and one of the cool feature is to mix license type in the same site. It’s based on a delivery group bases so here are the steps to configure the licensing for a delivery group. By default, if nothing is done, the global licensing configuration of the site is applied to all delivery group. In a PowerShell command line: Add-PSSnapin Citrix* Set-BrokerDesktopGroup -Name ###DGNAME### -ProducCode ###PROODUCTCODE### -LicenseModel ###LICENSEMODEL### Where: […]

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Like already said in a previous post, I’m very interested on this new feature in XenApp/XenDesktop 7.12. I’ve learned a bit more about it so here are my new inputs! First step: Create a tag! By right clicking on Delivery Group or a VDA you will be able to manage the Tags and create one. Second step: Configure Machine Tag Restriction In order to configure Machine Tag Restriction, you need to limit a desktop (or a published application) to a specific […]

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During a loginVSI load testing scenario on physical servers, I’ve encountered a specific problem: around 170 to 180 users (with a 15 second logon rate), the XenApp server stops opening new session because of a CPU outage. After a couple of dozens of minutes, the server was returning to a more expected value (about 60% of CPU usage). After this pause, the server is re-performing well and new sessions could connect without any problem. During this CPU peak period, the […]